Reply #27: On Facebook, while I and many others were commenting on an old college group photo,

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I learned that 2 people in the picture had passed away. I asked how they had died and I only got an explanation for one person (bone cancer). I pressed for info on the other person's death. I knew he was gay (as we all did), so I began to wonder if it was AIDS. Eventually, a friend PM'd me that it was, in fact, AIDS. I thought it was so sad that no one wanted to post it publicly, as if it were something shameful. I was shocked and saddened to realize that there is still this stigma that goes with the illness.

This press conference is horrible. Just horrible. I have had so many wonderful friends and acquaintances die from AIDS. It makes me very sad.